Re: [PATCH 1/2] Support for the at91sam9g20 : Atmel 400Mhz ARM 926ej-s SOC

[Sedji Gaouaou <sedji.gaouaou@atmel.com>]

Hi Russel,

Russell King - ARM Linux a écrit :
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 04:19:17PM +0200, Sedji Gaouaou wrote:
>> Hi Andrew,
>>>   
>>>> +/*
>>>> + * MCI (SD/MMC)
>>>> + */
>>>> +static struct at91_mmc_data __initdata ek_mmc_data = {
>>>> +	.slot_b		= 1,
>>>> +	.wire4		= 1,
>>>> +//	.det_pin	= ... not connected
>>>> +//	.wp_pin		= ... not connected
>>>> +//	.vcc_pin	= ... not connected
>>>>     
>>> Please make these a proper comment, preferably inside the comment before
>>> the structure.  C++ comments are frowned upon in the kernel's source.
>>
>> I would like to know what do you suggest about this comment? Indeed we 
>> already use this kind of comments, for instance in board-sam9260ek.c. I 
>> don't mind changing it into the proper comment form, but I would like to 
>> know first what do you suggest.
> 
> Documentation/CodingStyle:
> |
> |                Chapter 8: Commenting
> |
> ...
> |
> |Linux style for comments is the C89 "/* ... */" style.
> |Don't use C99-style "// ..." comments.
> 
> So how about:
> 
> /*
>  * MCI (SD/MMC)
>  * det_pin, wp_pin and vcc_pin are not connected
>  */
> static struct at91_mmc_data __initdata ek_mmc_data = {
> 	.slot_b         = 1,
> 	.wire4          = 1,
> };
> 
It is fine for me, I will change the patch with the proper style for 
comments.
BTW I have found the problem in the patch on the patch system, so I will 
change that too.
Thank you for your help and comments.

Regards,
Sedji